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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Assunta described physically?
(a) Unkempt and scraggly.
(b) Unattractive and old-looking.
(c) Heavy-set but jolly.
(d) Beautiful and delicate featured.

2. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?
(a) Peasant-like.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Barbaric.

3. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?
(a) Like an old man.
(b) Like a child.
(c) Like an angel.
(d) Like the devil.

4. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?
(a) He feels honored to have had her love at all.
(b) He feels betrayed.
(c) He understands why she cannot marry him.
(d) He hates her.

5. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her father told them.
(b) Her mother told them.
(c) She told them.
(d) Her new husband told them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?

2. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

3. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?

4. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?

5. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

2. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

3. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

4. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

5. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

6. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

7. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

8. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

9. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

10. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

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